Release Date: 01 September 2000
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571130378
Description
The glories of this final disc in the Hyperion Schubert Edition are hard to over-praise. Three tenors sing 20 songs from 1828, the last year of Schubertâs short life. The programme begins with Auf den Strom (On the River) sung by German/Canadian Michael Schade, with horn obbligato superbly played by David Pyatt. This is followed by Herbst, the two unrecorded Refrainlieder and a fragment, Lebensmut. Then follows Schwanengesang sung by two tenors: John Mark Ainsley sings the Rellstab settings (including a wondrous Ständchen and a heartrending In der Ferne) and Anthony Rolfe Johnson sings the Heine ones (including a hair-raising Döppelgänger) and, at the end, Die Taubenpost, Schubertâs last song. The two halves of Schwanengesang are separated by Glaube, Hoffnung und Liebe sung by all three tenors.
All of the music on this album is also available as part of the specially priced box set The Complete Songs of Franz Schubert: âThis is an archive of glorious Lieder singing as much as it is a definitive treasury of the greatest Lieder ever composedâ (The Guardian).
Tracklisting
The Brabant Ensemble / Stephen Rice
Steven Isserlis
Takacs Quartet
The Nash Ensemble
MultiPiano Ensemble, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Ivor Bolton
Marc-Andre Hamelin
Marc-Andre Hamelin, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Andrew Litton
Gothic Voices / Christopher Page
Marie McLaughlin, Graham Johnson
Margaret Price, Graham Johnson
Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson
Ann Murray, Graham Johnson
Ann Murray, Graham Johnson
Thomas Allen, Graham Johnson
Stephen Varcoe, Graham Johnson
Stephen Varcoe, Graham Johnson
